Armed Services YMCA
The Armed Services YMCA enhances the lives of military service members and families in mind, body, and spirit through programs and services that are relevant to the unique challenges of military life. The grant will provide junior-enlisted military families in San Diego with powerful youth development programming, much needed childcare, family bonding programs, equine therapeutic programs, recreation therapy, academic support, food assistance, and more.
Assistance League of Inland North County
Assistance League of Inland North County is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit all-volunteer organization actively involved in transforming the lives of children, adults and seniors through community programs. The signature program, Operation School Bell, served served 2,247 students by providing school clothes and shoes to low income students during the 2023-2024 school year, including responding to emergency request for clothes for school children throughout the year.
Barrio Logan College Institute
The mission of Barrio Logan College Institute (BLCI) is to break the cycle of poverty by preparing underserved students to be the first in their families to go to college through no-cost after school programs that begin in third grade. Currently serving up to 500 students from over 50 different schools at four locations throughout San Diego County, BLCI works in neighborhoods where student attainment outcomes are rated the lowest in the county.
Black Tech Link
The mission is to focus on the economic development of Black communities by providing workforce solutions, technical training, and networking opportunities. It strives to support underrepresented students identify careers in STEM by offering hands-on education training across various STEM disciplines. It also supports emerging small businesses and nonprofits in San Diego and Riverside Counties by offering free consultation that is supported. by the California Office of the Small Business Advocate (CalOSBA).
Cal State San Marcos Foundation
California State University San Marcos’ (CSUSM) mission is student success. The welcoming faculty and staff holistically advance the social, professional, and personal development of students across the student life cycle, through innovation, education, and community partnerships. The exemplary academic programs respond to societal needs while preparing graduates to be tomorrow’s socially responsible leaders and changemakers.
Community Housing Works
Community HousingWorks (CHW) provides and builds life-changing affordable apartment communities with resident-centered services for working families, older adults and people with disabilities to forge stronger futures. CHW provides affordable housing to over 7,000 older adults (55 years old+) throughout the State of California who have low to moderate income and has eight communities in Southern California dedicated solely to housing older adults.
Elderhelp of San Diego
Founded in 1973, ElderHelp of San Diego’s mission is to provide personalized services and information that help seniors remain independent and live with dignity in their own homes. The agency has a long history of helping low-income seniors experiencing significant challenges that impact their independence, well-being, and quality of life.
Foundation for Senior Care
The Foundation for Senior Care's mission is to provide comprehensive support and services that enhance the quality of life for seniors and adults with disabilities in the community. Their Door Through Door (DTD) program aims to reduce hospital readmissions and improve overall health outcomes by addressing critical gaps in care, ensuring safety, and providing essential resources for seniors transitioning from hospital to home.
Friends of the San Pasqual Academy
For over 20 years, Friends of San Pasqual Academy has been committed to providing the foster teens of San Pasqual Academy with a traditional high school experience. The Academy is a bold new venture—in fact, the first in the nation, co-education, residential high school for foster teens. And it is successful, over 90% of the foster teens earn their high school diploma—a graduation rate that is far above local and national levels.
Helen Woodward Animal Center
Helen Woodward Animal Center’s passionate belief that animals help people and people help animals through trust, unconditional love, and respect creates a legacy of caring. Sharing this philosophy with others, the Center inspires and teaches, locally and globally, the importance of the animal-human bond.
I Love a Clean San Diego County
I Love A Clean San Diego (ILACSD) leads and inspires the community to actively conserve and enhance the environment through example, outreach, and local involvement. Founded in 1954, ILACSD began by fighting against litter. Today, ILACSD is on a mission to create zero waste lifestyles and zero litter throughout San Diego County. ILACSD serves approximately 100,000 students, adults, and businesses every year by providing environmental education, volunteer cleanup and beautification programs, and recycling and zero waste solutions. On average, ILACSD hosts over 900 workshops and produces 600 community cleanups each year.
MilVet
MilVet was founded in 2016 and is dedicated to supporting deployed troops, veterans and their families. MilVet provides personalized military care packages to over 200 addresses, hosts a weekly food/household pantry for veterans and hosts a Holidays for Heroes event for families each year. MilVet has been named Nonprofit of the Year by the California State Assembly in 2022 and Nonprofit of the Year 2025 by the Temecula and Lake Elsinore Chamber of Commerce for their work.
Military Women’s Collective
Military Women's Collective (MWC) is committed to ending the epidemic of women veteran and military women suicide by uniting military-affiliated women in their communities. They foster connections, provide mental health resources, create opportunities for adventure and personal growth, offer career mentorship, and provide the ongoing support women veterans need to help them navigate the challenges they face after leaving the military.
North County LGBTQ Resource Center
The mission of the North County LGBTQ Resource Center is to foster and empower the North County LGBTQ community by providing a safe space, advancing awareness and visibility, and sustaining equality and inclusiveness.
Operation Homefront
Operation Homefront is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit, with a local field office in San Diego, whose mission is to build strong, stable, and secure military families so they can thrive — not simply struggle to get by — in the communities they have worked so hard to protect. OH serves active duty, deployed, and transitioning service members and post-9/11 wounded, ill, and injured service members and veterans and their families. Programs are primarily targeted to junior- and mid-grade enlisted service members and veterans generally with a VA-disability rating of over 65% (most unable to be employed). Both groups often earn approximately 70% below the Area Median Income for the communities they live in.
Operation Hope North County
Operation HOPE–North County (OHNC) provides year-round emergency shelter and trauma-informed services for single women and families with children experiencing homelessness in North County, San Diego. Through our Steps to Independence Program, we offer more than temporary relief; we create a structured, family-centered pathway to long-term housing stability, economic independence, and emotional healing.
Reality Changers
Reality Changers believes that college changes everything, especially for low-income students. That's why the mission of Reality Changers is to transform lives by providing youth from disadvantaged backgrounds with the academic support, financial assistance, and leadership training to become college graduates.
San Diego 350
SanDiego350’s mission is to build a more sustainable future by educating and engaging people of all ages in efforts to address climate change. Through community-based programs, we empower volunteers with knowledge, tools, and opportunities to make a positive impact on our environment and the health of our region. SanDiego350 is an effective, local organization working collaboratively with community organizations, local Indigenous leaders, and other diverse partners to envision and create a more sustainable, healthier future for all.
San Diego Oasis
San Diego Oasis supports successful and healthy aging for senior citizens throughout San Diego County by providing lifelong learning and healthy living classes, travel activities and volunteer community service pairing older adults with at risk elementary school children to improve literacy skills and self-esteem.
San Diego Seniors Community Foundation
San Diego Seniors Community Foundation has launched No Senior Alone: Joyful Journeys - a year-round initiative to combat senior isolation by providing close to 1,000 older adults from 28 senior centers, Veteran Halls (VFW) and organizations that serve seniors across San Diego County with safe, accessible, and joy-filled field trips to destinations they would otherwise never experience. The program specifically focuses on elder orphans. In San Diego there are 180,000 "elder orphans" who are seniors aging alone without nearby family support. The field trips are more than excursions they’re dignity centered experiences that support mental wellness, reduce isolation, and create meaningful social connection.
San Dieguito River Park
The mission of the San Dieguito River Park (SDRP) is to preserve and restore land within the Focused Planning Area as a regional open space greenway and park system that protects the natural waterways and the natural and cultural resources and sensitive lands and provides compatible recreational opportunities that do not damage sensitive lands. The organization aims to provide a continuous and coordinated system of preserved lands with a connecting corridor of walking, equestrian, and bicycle trails, encompassing the San Dieguito River Valley from the ocean to the river’s source.
The ARC of San Diego
The Arc of San Diego supports and empowers people with disabilities to achieve their life goals. Each program offered by The Arc of San Diego has been developed to help each client achieve their life goals. The Arc operates programs that provide a continuum of support from birth to their senior years. The Arc serves people with a wide range of disabilities such as autism, Down syndrome, epilepsy, and cerebral palsy. In most cases, they can serve those with multiple disabling conditions who cannot be served by similar agencies.
The Bee Brigade
The goal of the Bee Brigade is to establish and operate safely functioning, educationally empowering, research driven honeybee sanctuaries in San Diego County and growing across the USA and its territories in support of valuable pollinators while providing honeybee education and resources to the general public.
Uplift Institute
The Uplift Institute empowers communities through transformative education, workforce innovation, and sustainable development—advancing equity, economic opportunity, and environmental justice through community-driven solutions.
Workshops for Warriors
The mission of Workshops for Warriors is to provide quality hands-on training, STEM educational programs, and opportunities to earn third-party nationally recognized credentials to enable veterans, transitioning service members, and other students to be successfully trained and placed in their chosen advanced manufacturing career.
